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Writer Website Review: WriteHook

Scott Morgan’s WriteHook climbed high into my list of most
frequent Internet landing pads from the first time the link beguiled me and I
did click.The header dropped that first
bit of advice coming from the core of his design in a font so blood red that I
have been tempted to touch the screen to see if it is wet:Write for the jugular.

What does that mean?It means Scott is a writer, soul to chromosome, and to paraphrase Robert
Heinlein, he pays attention to writing in the same way that most people pay
attention to their own heartbeats.His
honesty never bores or depresses you with laments of how no one reads anymore
or how trying to make a living writing is like making a living trying to win
the lottery.He doesn’t ask you, “Do you
want to write, or do you want to have written?”

He probably doesn’t care.

But I don’t need to sell the point when his material speaks
for itself.Here are a couple of quotes
from his site to give you a feel of his perspective:

“I am a former journalist. Former. I
love that word so much because journalism will salt you up and eat your soul
with a side of home fries and then wipe its greasy fingers all over what's left
of your face.”

Scott has done (and succeeded at) this writing thing for more
than half of his life.He likes showing
you how to take a wishy-washy character and drop an engine into it.Treat yourself to an epiphany and watch his
video to see what happens to your characters when you learn what D.R.I.V.E. is.I watched it, felt my jaw drop, and then
immediately went to Amazon and bought his book Character Development from the Inside Out.